About us
The Academy of High Performance Teams was founded in 2014.
With offices in London and Sydney, we have worked with more than 1,000 teams across over 50 countries. Organisations including Unilever, Nike, Tesco, Vodafone, M&S, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Gucci, Rio Tinto, and Airbus have trusted us to support the development of their leadership teams.
Why work with us?
We bring fresh perspective, energy, and lightness to conversations that are often difficult or stuck.
What can look like a lack of teamwork is frequently a sign of exhaustion rather than intention. Teams do not need another consultant explaining how to do their job. They need space to think, reflect, and reconnect with what really matters. Our role is to create that space, helping teams step back, see their situation more clearly, and have more honest and productive conversations about their business.
We ground our work in the real challenges your business is facing.
Rather than focusing on personality labels or abstract models, we help teams develop the collective leadership needed to address their most complex and pressing issues. Our work is about enabling teams to think better, decide better, and work better together – not memorising frameworks for their own sake.
We specialise exclusively in team development.
We have worked with over 1,000 teams from more than 50 countries. That focus allows us to bring depth and rigour to an area many only touch lightly. It means we understand not just what good looks like, but what actually helps teams shift their behaviour and performance over time.
Our approach sits at the intersection of research and practice.
We draw on our own doctoral-level research in executive teams, alongside more than two decades of hands-on experience working with leadership teams across sectors and geographies. We care deeply about what works and about translating insight into action in ways that are practical, grounded, and usable. Our work is published in The Economist Edge series of books.
In our experience, most teams already have pockets of brilliance.
Our work is to help you recognise them, learn from them, and build on them, working with you rather than on you, so change feels possible, meaningful, and sustainable.